Climate models suggest a small nuclear war in the tropics would do even more damage to the ozone layer than a larger nuclear ...

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory study shows that the formation of radioactive fallout is more complex than some ...

Forty years after Chernobyl changed history forever, discover 17 fascinating and heartbreaking facts about the world’s worst ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The 1945 Trinity nuclear test fused desert sand and bomb-tower materials into trinitite—a glassy substance unlike anything humans had created before.

Mysterious GPS disruptions across Europe, affecting vast areas for years, are now linked to a Russian military satellite ...

Space-based nuclear weapons are a serious matter, and one that deserves the very highest level of national attention.

Western military may have targeted the Ursa Major, which went down after mysterious explosions, reports suggest ...

A revisit to the historic Trinity nuclear test reveals how the world's first atomic explosion in 1945 created a rare radioactive mineral called trinitite.

Imagine a 150-kiloton nuclear bomb exploded in the city closest to you. Do you know how the city, its surrounding region, and its inhabitants would be affected? If you can't think of much more than "a ...

For decades, this place didn’t exist on any map - yet it was the most nuked location on Earth. The Soviet Union detonated 456 ...